Quotes About Obvious

I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

I said the only way I would join Pets.com was if I could get Amazon to invest, and I did. I knew that anything that could be sourced externally, Amazon could do better and cheaper than anyone else except Walmart. It was really obvious to me.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

The need to do something about global warming is obvious. And it's also pretty clear that the public understands the need for change and is ready to embrace it. What is missing is political will in Congress to stand up to the powerful energy companies and their well-paid lobbyists.

was good to see a dragon's teeth. A dragon with his mouth closed was far more likely to be working up a flame. That seemed completely obvious.

I can understand why many observers do not readily embrace the obvious implications of what I have called the law of accelerating returns (the inherent acceleration of the rate of evolution, with technological evolution as a continuation of biological evolution).

We score and stop. We don't celebrate because it has to go to VAR. What are the supporters doing? The passion goes. I think they have to have a little more flexibility, such as with the offside rule. If it's not clear and obvious, maintain the decision of the referee.

There are two kinds of strength,' he added, reflecting on years gone by. 'Power and the ability to wield it is obvious, but resilience, the ability to resist power, is the other.

I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.

I like incidents of that sort, when forces that are usually so sneaky and hard to point out slither out of the grass and are as obvious as, say, an anaconda that's eaten a cow or an elephant turd on the carpet.

we're apt to forget that symmetry is not an obvious quality that every creature must have.

it's amazing how constant repetition can make even the most obvious truths irritating enough to disagree with.

It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.

Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to analyze what they've said, when really it's obvious.

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.

It takes a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

When it's mutual, a man and a woman know, instinctively, wordlessly. They may do nothing about it, but the knowledge of that shared desire is out there in the world - as obvious as neon, saying: I want you, I want you, I want you.

My religious beliefs are private to me," he began, … and I suppose that yours may be to you. I am going to talk about more homely matters, matters so simple and obvious that it has almost gone out of fashion to talk about them—trite things, as trite as approving of good roads and good weather, or declaring for the American home and the American flag. I believe in my neighbors.32